Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and
you may be disappointed.
Strive to be the best and you may succeed:
he may well win the race that runs by himself.
Benjamin Franklin
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Jeb Bush should be proud after all the time and effort spent in NH that he placed 4th,as high as Vermin Supreme did on the Democratic ballot— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
A 600-lb pig showed up at the NH caucus polling facility Tuesday. No word on who he intended to support but he was against govt pork, so GOP— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
It's a good thing the 600-lb pig didn't run into Christie, who supports tough voter ID laws and would have indicted him as a ham sandwich.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
SC needs tougher littering laws. I went to buy groceries yesterday and the roads were lined with Trump and Sanders posters.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
Don Boudreaux points out how Trump doesn't crosscheck his stump speech, e.g., NH has an unemployment rate of 3.1% with bad Mexican trade?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
Jim Clyburn, member of the Congressional Black Caucus, is considering endorsing a candidate.I wonder who.Did she give you her email address?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
There's lot of speculation about Dems crossing over to support the weaker general election opponent,Trump.Will Republicans vote for Sanders?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
You see, if the vast right-wing conspiracy was out to get Hillary Clinton, it might well help organize or fund the Sanders movement.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
Will Trump will add a Luddite plank to his platform once he discovers job losses come with advances in technology?I'm up against Marco Robot— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
If the parent tweet doesn't display, a Trumpkin replied that technology frees up labor.
The troll responded with a collage of massive crowds at Trump rallies.@AlphaRomeo223 So does international trade, idiot! That's the point.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
Moving on. There was a flame war with colorful language that I'm not going to reproduce here.@AlphaRomeo223 Hitler and other demagogues like Trump also had economically illiterate cultists. What's your point, loser?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
I figured after all the anti-Trump tweets I've sent out, sooner or later I would get a Trump cultist coming after me. I decided not to be PC— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
I didn't realize when I tweeted about the 600-lb pig that perhaps he might have supported Bernie Sanders, a Jew. Not all Jews keep kosher.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
An angry Trump cultist today called me a liberal. Yes, I'm a classical liberal, meaning I believe in unalienable individual rights.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
But classical liberals do not accept State-conferred so-called positive rights, which often involve redistribution and/or moral hazard.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
As a classical liberal, I oppose government intervention in the economy & international affairs. I support unilateral free trade, migration.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 11, 2016
I also refer to myself as a pro-liberty conservative. I'm concerned about unintended consequences of meddling with institutions and culture.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 12, 2016
Image of the DayKudos to the Congress passing the Permanent Internet Freedom Tax Act today (the Senate passed 75-20 and the bill now goes to the President).— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 12, 2016
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(Reason). Tonight’s New Hampshire primary results represent a rebuke not only to America’s two-party political system, but to America’s entire class of political and economic elites.
I realize a number of libertarians are rejoicing that two grossly incompetent "outsiders" have got their party leaderships worried over their party's chances over maverick politicians out of the mainstream of their party's positions. It seems Lew Rockwell at every opportunity on his website openly rejoices how Trump has the GOP in a state of panic. The Democrats remember how Nixon steamrolled McGovern, and Sanders is left of McGoverrn. The GOP knows alienation of immigrant groups played a role in Romney's defeat, and it could be stuck with an even worse candidate with unfavorables off the charts and cause catastrophic losses over the entire ticket.
This has nothing to do with new politics or ideology. For example, Sanders and Clinton have very similar policies. The rebuke of Clinton has more to do with her huge baggage and lack of political skills. As for Trump, he is a celebrity. Citing his opposition to the Iraq War as a Democrat is really cherrypicking--he is not a principled non-interventionist, he has openly advocated taking Iraq's oil, restoring waterboarding and worse in the War on Terror, and sharply increasing the DoD budget.
Stop rejoicing at the success of unconventional candidates who are far more Statist than the mainstream. Be really careful of what you wish for; libertarians would face worse problems than we do now in the status quo. Fascism from the left or right is repulsive; Trump in particular openly admires strongmen running Russia and North Korea
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